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How to write the first great play about the 9/11 terrorist attacks

No politics, no crying, no love stories: Rupert Goold tells Andrew Billen how he’s tackling the tragedy, ten years on

August 20 2011, 1:01am, The Times

Director Rupert GooldTristram Kenton

After the brush-off that New York gave Lucy Prebble’s exuberant ENRON last year, it perhaps takes some nerve for its director to tackle next an even greater American disaster. Yet this is what Rupert Goold will do next month in Decade, a multi-authored piece of vaulting ambition to be performed in a new space in London Docklands. Its subject is 9/11 and how it changed the world. In mounting it, Goold, the director currently of a bold Merchant of Venice at Stratford, will be doing on September 11, 2011, what neither the RSC, the National, nor even the Royal Court, let alone any theatre on Broadway, is doing: marking the tenth anniversary of an event that was not transformative but, as he points out, had,…

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